Series A Dashboard — AI Skill Team

Round live · investor briefing

$18M Series A · the AI economy's storefront.

A vertically-integrated AI marketplace + 24-agent production studio. Scroll for function inventory, platform thesis, SWOT, market penetration tactics, and the full Series A agenda.

Round at a glance

Sized for 24 months of an 18-person team plus the supply-side spend needed to take the marketplace from working prototype to defensible liquidity.

Target raise

$18M

12M lead · 6M follow

Pre-money

$60–80M

~$70M median

Runway post-close

24 mo

Burn ramps to $750k/mo

Lead board seat

17–20%

Single conviction lead

M12 GMV target

$1.8M

trailing-30d

M12 NRR target

≥ 115%

paid cohorts

Use of funds

Bucket	%	$ amount	What it buys
Engineering	38%	$6.8M	Next.js + Supabase rebuild, Stripe Connect, real Claude QC pipeline, search/recsys
GTM	22%	$4.0M	Performance + creator partnerships
Creator acquisition	18%	$3.2M	Top-100 creator grants @ $20–30k each, hackathons
Payments + AI infra	10%	$1.8M	Stripe + Replicate + Higgsfield + Anthropic spend
G&A + buffer	12%	$2.2M	Legal, audit, runway buffer

Comp table

Company	Stage	Round	Post-money	Why comparable
Replicate	Series B	$40M	~$350M	AI infra marketplace, dev-creator overlap
ElevenLabs	Series A	$19M	~$100M	Creator monetization on AI primitives
Stack AI	Seed	$4M	~$25M	Agentic builder, vertical SaaS lean
Civitai	Seed	$5.1M	~$20M	Open-creator AI marketplace
HuggingFace	Series C	$235M	~$2B	Long-term model marketplace ceiling

Every function of the website

Auto-generated by an agent swarm scanning the live codebase at ~/Desktop/aiskillteam-landing/. Code citations are clickable in the data room.

Customer surfaces

index.html · Apps directory home — 24 cards, search, category-chip filter, sort, public nav.
apps.html · Same apps directory (kept for direct sub-page links). Featured-pin + FREE pill on Android Control.
marketplace.html · Services marketplace — 24 sample creator listings + email capture.
digital-products.html · Live grid that renders aiskill_studio_published plus 24 seed cards. Ebooks fixed at $0.99.
studio-coming.html · Public Pinterest-style gallery — 24 prompt/asset cards with platform pills, autoplay video covers.
login.html · Email/password form, GitHub/Google stubs, "Try demo" auto-signin.

Operator surfaces

dashboard.html · Overview, Listings, New Listing, Content Studio, Sales, Payouts, Site Control, Settings + Account Connections (auth-guarded).
studio.html · Floor, Agents, Pipeline, Queue, Published, Topics, Settings · 24-agent simulation, agent CRUD, VPS terminal modal, platform connect, content feed.
studio-add.html · Studio Console terminal — prompt → probes /api/health, calls /api/generate, polls jobs, falls back to simulation.
studio-upload.html · Drag/drop uploader — base64 → /api/save-asset → posts to gallery.
studio-marketing.html · Joseph Marketing Studio — per-page presets, 5 asset roles, aspect/duration, routes to /api/generate.

Backend services (`server.js`)

GET /api/health · Token presence, provider, configured models, active job count.
GET /api/higgsfield/status · Reports direct if HIGGSFIELD_API_KEY set, else mcp_only.
POST /api/generate · Validates kind (image/video/infographic), creates job, runs Replicate sync for stills, async prediction for video, downloads to assets/studio/{kind}/.
GET /api/jobs/:id · Polls Replicate prediction, on success downloads MP4, persists job state.
POST /api/save-asset · Accepts data-URL up to 100MB, writes to disk with sanitized filename.
GET /api/jobs · Last 50 jobs, debugging.
Static file serving · express.static(__dirname) mounts the entire site at one origin.

AI / generation pipeline

Replicate SDK wired in server.js · default models black-forest-labs/flux-dev (image / infographic) and lightricks/ltx-video (video) · all overridable via env.
Higgsfield MCP (OAuth/PKCE at mcp.higgsfield.ai) · wired into Claude Code locally; server reports mode: 'mcp_only' until HIGGSFIELD_API_KEY is added.
Claude Code simulation · Visual QC pipeline stage (V-01..V-03 agents) emits Claude-themed activity logs for thumbnails + accompanying-image generation.
Studio Console is provider-agnostic · probes /api/health, on success calls /api/generate, polls /api/jobs/:id for video; otherwise runs deterministic simulation.
Marketing Studio · same generate / poll / status surface, plus Higgsfield-MCP status panel.
Manual upload path · studio-upload.html → POST /api/save-asset → disk + gallery.

Persistence layers (localStorage keys)

aiskill_session · auth session.
aiskill_listings · creator-uploaded listings from dashboard New-Listing flow.
aiskill_studio_published · products auto-published by the studio simulation (cap 200) — feeds digital-products.html.
aiskill_studio_user_assets · manual uploads + console generations for the public gallery.
aiskill_studio_user_fleet, aiskill_studio_deleted_agents · agent CRUD persistence.
aiskill_studio_content, aiskill_studio_connected_platforms · per-platform content + credentials map (15 platforms).
aiskill_content_assets · Dashboard Content Studio designs (cap 50).
aiskill_site_config · Site Control branding/copy/nav/Studio toggles.
aiskill_higgsfield_connection, aiskill_higgsfield_last_email · Higgsfield connection state.
aiskill_marketing_studio_v1 · Marketing Studio per-page gallery (cap 200).

Cross-page integrations

studio.html publishes a product → writes aiskill_studio_published → digital-products.html reads on load + storage event + 5s soft poll (now diff-aware to prevent flicker), renders cards live.
dashboard.html New Listing → writes aiskill_listings → top of dashboard table.
studio-add.html + studio-upload.html → /api/save-asset + aiskill_studio_user_assets → studio-coming.html merges with studio-assets.json manifest.
Account Connections panel (dashboard.html#settings) reads /api/health and /api/higgsfield/status.
login.html writes aiskill_session · auth guards on Dashboard + Studio redirect when missing; public-page avatar swaps to user initial.

Platform analysis

What kind of platform is this?

aiskillteam.com is a vertically-integrated, multi-sided AI marketplace with a built-in production studio. Frame it as Etsy × HuggingFace × Clay: three customer-facing catalogs (apps.html, marketplace.html, digital-products.html) sit on top of a creator economy (dashboard.html) and an autonomous content factory (studio.html — 24 agents across Researcher / Writer / Designer / QC / Visual QC / Publisher roles, plus a public studio-coming.html gallery showing real Higgsfield + Replicate outputs). Unlike a generic marketplace it does not wait for supply — it manufactures listings on its own line via studio.html → aiskill_studio_published → digital-products.html. Unlike a generic generation tool it monetizes the output directly inside the same domain.

Network effects

Two-sided plus a third "asset gravity" loop. Each new creator listing through dashboard.html#new enriches the catalogs that buyers browse. Each buyer signal sharpens topic prioritization for the Studio Queue. Each Studio publish drops a real image / video into studio-coming.html, which is itself an SEO and demand-gen surface that feeds the catalogs. The Marketing Studio (studio-marketing.html) closes the loop by generating page-scoped heroes, OG images, and video clips for every site page from the same pipeline — meaning marketing assets, product assets, and creator assets all share one production substrate.

Defensibility / moat

What is defensible: the pipeline orchestration (Researcher → Writer → Designer → Visual QC → Publisher with quality scores, role colors, and per-agent VPS terminals takes months to clone), the creator + studio dual-funnel (most competitors have one or the other), the in-house marketing engine, and the brand positioning ("number one marketplace for AI-native apps"). What is not defensible yet: the underlying models (Replicate, Higgsfield, Anthropic are all rentable), the listings (no buy-side liquidity yet), and the auth / payments layer (localStorage prototype). The moat is the workflow, not the weights.

Why now

2025-2026 is the first year all three preconditions hold. Generation cost per image is sub-cent and per video is sub-dollar. Agentic orchestration (Claude tool-use, MCP) is mature enough to run a 24-agent factory without humans in the loop. Prompt-as-IP is emerging as a salable category — the Studio gallery proves the prompt itself is the product. Etsy's TAM took 15 years to build; here the supply side can be turned on with a Replicate token and a topic seed list.

SWOT analysis

Honest read for sophisticated investors.

Strengths

Vertically-integrated creation pipeline (studio.html → digital-products.html) means supply is never the bottleneck; the marketplace boots with non-zero inventory on day one.
Real generation is wired end-to-end — server.js:/api/generate proxies Replicate (Flux / Kling / LTX), Higgsfield MCP is OAuth-connected, and assets persist to disk.
Dual-sided operator surfaces are already built: Creator Dashboard for human creators and Studio for the AI fleet — sharing one card schema, one localStorage layer, one publish event.
Site-wide marketing factory in studio-marketing.html means we produce our own heroes, OG cards, and short-form video using the same infra we sell — capex efficiency is unusually high.
Functions & Health monitoring + Claude Code triage queue (dashboard.html#site) gives the operator a real ops surface at this stage — rare for a prototype.

Weaknesses

Auth is a localStorage prototype (aiskill_session) accepting any password — blocking real Series A diligence on security.
No payments. Stripe Connect appears in dashboard.html#payouts as a ****4242 placeholder; zero GMV has actually moved.
Apps in apps.html are catalog cards — no real APKs, IPAs, or installable artifacts behind them yet.
Zero real creators. All listings are seeded; the Studio is the only live supply, which creates a chicken-and-egg buyer problem.
Studio simulation is part-real (Replicate path) and part-templated (setInterval tick advancing progress); fleet activity reads as live but most agent log lines are templated.
Heavy platform dependency: Anthropic / Higgsfield / Replicate — any one outage degrades the demo.

Opportunities

Wire Stripe Connect into dashboard.html#payouts to unlock GMV — the data shape (sales, payouts) is already specified.
Replace MCP-only Higgsfield with the server-side HIGGSFIELD_API_KEY integration that /api/higgsfield/status is already feature-flagged for — collapses generation latency and unlocks programmatic publishing.
Real APK / IPA / web-app packaging behind apps.html — turn the catalog from a directory into a true app store with INSTALL actually doing something.
White-label the Studio: every vertical agency (B2B SaaS, ecommerce, real estate) wants a 24-agent content factory; license studio.html + server.js per-tenant.
B2B creator partnerships (Whop, Gumroad, ConvertKit refugees) — the Creator Dashboard is more polished and the Studio is a unique import-supply mechanism nobody else offers.
Prompt-as-IP marketplace: studio-coming.html already attributes prompts and platforms — sell the prompt as the SKU, not the asset.

Threats

Direct competitors at every layer: Etsy / Gumroad / Whop on digital products, ProductHunt / Replicate-marketplace on apps, Civitai / OpenArt on AI assets, Karat / Clay on agentic workflows. Each is better-funded on its single axis.
Provider concentration risk: Anthropic price changes, Higgsfield acquisition, or a Replicate outage could knock out the Studio.
Generation commoditization is accelerating — image-gen will be sub-cent within 12 months, pressuring any business that monetizes generation alone (moat must be workflow + distribution, not pixels).
AI content provenance regulation (EU AI Act, state-level deepfake rules, C2PA mandates) will force the Studio to embed signed provenance metadata.
Buyer trust: an AI-manufactured catalog risks being perceived as "slop" — quality scoring (qcvisuals stage) and visible curation must outperform pure-volume competitors.
Vercel/static-deploy architecture means the local server.js proxy is not actually serving production today — diligent investors will probe the gap.

Market penetration strategy

Target customer segments (rank-ordered)

#	Who	JTBD	Why us	Reachable cohort
1	Indie AI builders shipping micro-tools (1–10 portfolio)	Ship a paid AI thing in a weekend and get distribution without running their own funnel	Apps directory + 90/10 royalty + Stripe Connect beats Gumroad's flat 10% + zero discovery	~25k Y1
2	AI-curious SMB owners ($500–$4,500 services)	Buy a fixed-scope AI build with vetted operator and 14-day SLA	Marketplace is curated (not Fiverr noise), AI-native (not Upwork generalists). AOV $850 vs Fiverr Pro $250	~40k
3	Prompt-pack and ebook buyers ($0.99–$49 impulse)	Skip trial-and-error — buy a pre-tuned pack and ship today	Studio publishes 24/7 so catalog freshness compounds; PromptBase tops out ~$10 average	~60k
4	Agencies licensing the Studio as white-label	Quietly run a 24-agent factory branded as their own; bill clients $3–8k/mo	No competing white-label AI content factory exists with this fleet model	~3k

Wedge — first 90 days

The $0.99 ebook funnel feeding the $19 prompt pack. Surface = Digital Products. Channel = paid X/Twitter to AI-builder lookalikes + organic Reddit (r/ChatGPTPro, r/PromptEngineering). Lowest friction (impulse price), highest top-of-funnel volume, Studio already manufactures these for free, and each buyer is a logged-in payment-on-file account that can be retargeted into prompt packs ($19), templates ($24), and courses ($49). Apps and Marketplace require trust we don't have yet; ebooks require only a Stripe checkout. Compounds because Studio output rate = 50–100 SKUs/week with zero marginal COGS.

Land-and-expand sequence

Stage	Window	Primary metric	Stop / Go gate
1 · $0.99 ebook funnel live	Mo 0–3	3,000 paying accounts	≥ 4% paid CVR on landing
2 · Cross-sell prompt packs + templates	Mo 3–6	$25 LTV/account at D90	≥ 22% repeat purchase rate
3 · Open Marketplace services to gated paid creators	Mo 6–9	$40k GMV/mo, 200 listings	≥ 65% buyer satisfaction
4 · Apps + paid installs + white-label Studio	Mo 9–12	$150k MRR-equivalent run-rate	NRR ≥ 110%

Distribution channels (rank by ROI confidence)

#	Channel	Effort	Cost	CAC	LTV signal
1	$0.99 ebook funnel via paid X/Twitter (lookalike to @levelsio / @gregisenberg)	Med	Med	$3–6	22% to $19 pack
2	Greg Isenberg / Latent.Space / Ben's Bites partnerships (1 sponsored slot/mo + revshare)	Low	Low	$8–12	Highest-quality builder cohort
3	Programmatic SEO on long-tail "best [X] prompt pack 2026"	Med	Low	$0–2	Compounds at scale
4	ProductHunt + ShowHN for Android Control as flagship free app	High	Low	$4	Brand halo
5	Agency white-label Studio outbound (50 hand-picked/mo via Apollo)	High	Med	$400	$36k+/account
6	Reddit + Discord organic seeding (r/ChatGPTPro, Latent.Space Discord)	Low	$0	$1–3	Noisy but real

Pricing & monetization tactics

Keep $0.99 ebook as permanent loss-leader — required for funnel; signals catalog freshness.
Bundle ladder: ebook $0.99 → pack $19 → toolkit $39 → course $49 → marketplace service $500+. One-click upsells in checkout.
Take rates: 10% Digital Products, 15% Marketplace services (justified by curation), 20% Apps with paid installs, 0% on free apps (loss-leader for trust).
Studio-as-a-Service for agencies: $1,499/mo flat per fleet of 24 agents, with 80/20 split on what their agents publish.
Freemium hook: all logged-in users get 3 free Studio generations/mo (Replicate cost ~$0.30). Drives signup; converts ~6% to paid Pro at $29/mo.

Series A agenda

90-day pre-fundraise sprint

Week	Deliverable
W1	Lock narrative ("the 24/7 AI factory + the marketplace it feeds"). Draft one-pager. Pull 30 days of Studio publish events into a clean export.
W2	Stand up real auth (Supabase) and migrate `aiskill_session`. Kill localStorage prototype.
W3	Stripe Connect onboarding live for top 5 design-partner creators.
W4	First $1 GMV. Screenshot the Stripe dashboard.
W5	Hire revenue-ops contractor. Build the live KPI page (this dashboard).
W6	Data room v1 (folders below). Three-statement model in Causal or Runway.
W7	Recruit 25 creators onto a "Founding Creators" tier.
W8	Pitch-deck v1 (15 slides). Two paid coaches review.
W9	Warm-intro pipeline — 60 named partners ranked. Map second-degree paths via AngelList/LinkedIn.
W10	Three pre-pitch "feedback meetings" with friendly tier-2 funds — collect objections, refine.
W11	Founder + customer references list. 8 founder names, 5 creators, 3 buyers.
W12	Public Studio gallery hits 500 published assets. Press teaser. First investor emails Monday W13.

Investor target list (12, ranked by fit)

#	Firm / angel	Why-them	Concern they'll raise
1	Index Ventures	Pattern-match on Figma + creator marketplaces	Take-rate defensibility
2	Conviction (Sarah Guo)	AI-native thesis, agent-first	Consumer-vs-prosumer focus
3	a16z Infra (Casado / Wang)	Production-layer story is their language	Non-recurring GMV
4	Sequoia (Sonya Huang)	Generative AI Market Map author	Defensibility vs. Replicate
5	Greylock (Saam Motamedi)	Agentic + marketplace overlap	Cold-start liquidity
6	Lightspeed (Alex Taussig)	Creator economy DNA	LTV in paid-content marketplace
7	Bessemer (Talia Goldberg)	Vertical SaaS + creator	Take-rate sustainability
8	Floodgate (Iris Choi)	Early consumer	TAM at exit
9	Felicis (Aydin Senkut)	AI applications focus	Moat vs. ChatGPT Apps
10	Anthropic Startup Fund	Strategic	Model-lock-in optics
11	Stripe (strategic)	Payments + creator angle	Stripe Connect cannibalization
12	Solo angels: Greg Isenberg, Sahil Lavingia, Pieter Levels, Andrew Wilkinson	Creator-economy distribution	TAM and team depth

Pitch deck outline (15 slides)

#	Slide	Required visual / chart	One sentence to remember
1	Title	Animated logo over "AI Skill Team"	"The marketplace where AI builds the products."
2	Problem	% of Etsy/Gumroad listings now AI-generated	Creators want to sell AI-native goods; today's marketplaces aren't built for them.
3	Insight	Funnel: human-creator vs. agentic-creator throughput	One operator + 24 agents out-produces 100 humans.
4	Solution	Split-screen of Studio + Marketplace	We're the factory and the storefront.
5	Demo	Live screenshot of `studio-coming.html` gallery	Every asset on this page was made by an agent in the last 30 days.
6	Market	TAM/SAM/SOM — $50B creator economy + $20B AI infra	Both curves bend toward us.
7	Traction	GMV + listings + DAU sparkline	Compounding 24/7 because the factory never sleeps.
8	Business model	Take-rate waterfall	15% take-rate plus production margin from Studio output.
9	Unit economics	LTV / CAC bar chart	$9 CAC, $140 LTV, 2.1 month payback.
10	Why now	Agent-cost decay curve	Cost-per-asset fell 80% in 18 months; we're on the right side of the line.
11	Competition	2x2 (creator-first vs. agent-first; marketplace vs. tool)	Only quadrant filled by us.
12	Moat	Supply flywheel diagram (creators → assets → buyers → revenue → creators)	Two-sided liquidity competitors can't bolt on.
13	Team	Founder photos + logos	We've shipped marketplaces and agent systems before.
14	Roadmap	Gantt to Series B milestones	24 months to $20M GMV run-rate.
15	The ask	$18M @ $70M pre	Lead the round that builds the AI economy's storefront.

Milestones to hit BEFORE first investor meeting

#	Milestone	Ship by	What it proves
1	Real auth (Supabase) live	W2	We can ship production infra
2	First $1 GMV via Stripe Connect	W4	The loop closes
3	25 onboarded paying creators	W7	Supply-side liquidity
4	500 Studio-published assets with real Claude QC	W12	Production layer is real
5	$25k GMV month	W12	Demand
6	2.5x M/M GMV growth, 3 consecutive months	W12	Slope
7	One viral moment (HN/Twitter ≥ 50k impressions)	W6–W12	Narrative resonance
8	NRR ≥ 110% on early cohort	W12	Stickiness

Live KPI dashboard requirements

The investor-facing page must surface, all auto-refreshing. Each metric links to its source query so diligence can verify the number live.

Paying accounts

target 25k

distinct buyers w/ ≥1 paid order, lifetime · M12

Net GMV

target $1.8M

gross sales − refunds, trailing 30d · M12

Take-rate revenue

target $220k/mo

net GMV × blended take-rate · M12

Studio SKUs live

target 8,000

published products available for sale · M12

Net Revenue Retention

target ≥ 115%

(start cohort GMV + expansion − churn) / start · M12

CAC payback

target < 4 mo

CAC ÷ avg gross profit per buyer/mo · M12

Operational metrics also visible to investors

GMV: today / WoW / MoM / cumulative.
Supply: creators total + active-30d, listings live, listings published-by-Studio.
Demand: DAU, MAU, DAU/MAU ratio, signup→buy conversion, repeat-buy rate.
Production-pipeline throughput: assets/hour, fleet utilization %, queue depth, qcvisuals pass rate.
Take-rate: gross take-rate, net after Stripe fees.
LTV / CAC + payback months.
Cash + runway: cash on hand, monthly burn, months remaining.

Risk register · top 5 diligence questions

#	Question	Honest answer	Mitigating data point
1	"Why won't OpenAI / ChatGPT Apps eat this?"	They will dominate model-side; we win on creator economics + storefront.	90/10 royalty split + Stripe Connect payouts they won't replicate.
2	"Is GMV real or Studio-self-dealing?"	Today most volume is Studio.	Split GMV reporting into "third-party creator" vs. "house" from day one; commit to ≥ 60% third-party by Series B.
3	"What's defensible — anyone can run 24 agents."	Agents aren't the moat; two-sided liquidity is.	Cohort-retention curves on creators + buyers.
4	"Won't Replicate / HuggingFace just add a marketplace?"	They could, but their muscle is dev-tool not consumer storefront.	Brand + buyer-side traction we'll have by close.
5	"What if Anthropic / OpenAI raises model prices 5x?"	Production margins compress.	Higgsfield + Replicate multi-provider routing; model-cost as % of GMV trending down 6 months running.

Diligence packet checklist

Corp/

Cert of incorporation
Bylaws · cap table · 409A
Board consents
IP-assignment agreements
FF stock paperwork

Financials/

3-statement model
Monthly P&L
Stripe export · bank statements
AWS / Vercel / Anthropic / Replicate spend
18-month forecast + scenarios

Product · Tech

Roadmap · KPI dashboard URL
User-research synthesis · churn · NPS
Architecture diagram · security memo
SOC2 readiness · incident log
Studio agent spec · model routing

Legal · Customers · Hiring · Notes

Terms · privacy · creator agreement · DMCA · trademarks · OSS audit
Top-10 creator + top-10 buyer interviews · cohort retention CSVs
Org chart current + post-close · 9 JDs · comp bands · pipeline
Why-now memo · competitive memo · objection responses · post-A operating plan